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- Backman, Christel, 1979, et al.
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Online privacy in job recruitment processes? Boundary work among cybervetting recruiters
- 2019
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Ingår i: New technology, work and employment. - : Wiley. - 0268-1072 .- 1468-005X. ; 34:2, s. 157-173
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article addresses various ways that cybervetting recruiters (re)construct boundaries around the public–private division. Based on interviews with 37 recruiters in Sweden, we show how the practice of cybervetting is legitimised by the recruiters’ descriptions and accounts in relation to various notions of privacy and norms of information flow. We present this as a boundary work aided by especially two ways of framing information: the repertoire about accessible information and the repertoire of relevant information. These repertoires help define what information can be conceived of as public or private, and as legitimate versus unethical to search for and to use. Privacy is framed by employers as a responsibility, rather than a right, for social network site users. The findings also underline similarities and differences in jobseekers’ and employers’ norms of information flow, not least considering the right to online privacy.
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- Cicmil, Svetlana, et al.
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The project (management) discourse and its consequences : On vulnerability and un-sustainability in project-based work
- 2016
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Ingår i: New technology, work and employment. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 0268-1072 .- 1468-005X. ; 31:1, s. 58-76
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this paper, we examine how the discourses related to project-based work and management are drawn upon in the organising of contemporary work, and the implications they have for project workers. We are interested in how project workers and projectified organisations become vulnerable to decline, decay and exhaustion and why they continue to participate in, and so sustain, projectification processes. The critical perspective taken here, in combination with our empirical material from the ICT sector, surfaces an irreversible decline of the coping capacity of project workers and draws attention to the addictive perception of resilience imposed on and internalised by them as a condition of success and longevity. Under those circumstances, resilience is made sense of and internalised as coping with vulnerability by letting some elements of life being destroyed; thus re-emerging as existentially vulnerable rather than avoiding or resisting the structures and processes that perpetuate vulnerability.
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- Messenger, Jon C., et al.
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Three generations of Telework : New ICTs and the (R)evolution from Home Office to Virtual Office
- 2016
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Ingår i: New technology, work and employment. - : Wiley. - 0268-1072 .- 1468-005X. ; 31:3, s. 195-208
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Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)abstract
- New ICTs', such as smartphones and tablet computers, have revolutionised work and life in the 21st Century. Crucial to this development is the detachment of work from traditional office spaces. Today's office work is often supported by Internet connections, and thus can be done from anywhere at any time. Research on detachment of work from the employer's premises actually dates back to the previous century. In the 1970s and 1980s, Jack Nilles and Allan Toffler predicted that work of the future would be relocated into or nearby employees' homes with the help of technology, called Telework'. Analysing technological advancementsthe enabling forces of change in this contextover four decades sheds new light on this term: they have fostered the evolution of Telework in distinct stages or generations'. Today's various location-independent, technology-enabled new ways of working are all part of the same revolution in the inter-relationship between paid work and personal life.
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- Olofsdotter, Gunilla, 1957-, et al.
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Gender (in)equality contested : externalising employment in the construction industry
- 2016
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Ingår i: New technology, work and employment. - : Wiley. - 0268-1072 .- 1468-005X. ; 31:1, s. 41-57
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In construction and engineering, workers from different organisations work together, often on a project-by-project basis. Drawing on the theoretical framework of inequality regimes as presented by Acker (2006a), and the externalisation of employment relations presented by Kalleberg et.al. (2003), this article investigates the gendered implications of the externalisation of technological work in the construction industry. The empirical material is based upon interviews and a questionnaire answered by regular employees, contracted staff and independent contractors working in the construction industry. The data reveal how non-standard employments are parts of the organising processes that produce gendered inequalities between core and peripheral workers. This finding does not suggest that peripheral work indicates poor working conditions, to be more presise, peripheral workers can be in the most priviledged positions.
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- Siegert, Steffi, et al.
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Online boundary work tactics : an affordance perspective
- 2019
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Ingår i: New technology, work and employment. - : Wiley-Blackwell. - 0268-1072 .- 1468-005X. ; 34:1, s. 18-36
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Studies of work/life balance have focussed on offline settings, and even though technology is considered as a boundary-influencing feature, social media have not been the focus. Social technologies challenge the relationship between work and private life in new ways, due to their identified affordances: visibility, persistence, association and editability (Treem and Leonardi, 2012). In this paper, we present the results of a study of social media use (Facebook and Twitter) by employees of non-governmental organisations (NGOs), and show how, through their affordances, these technologies influence the relationship and boundaries between work and non-work, increasing visibility and reducing individual privacy. Consequently, we observe boundary work tactics that aim to protect private life from both public and professional scrutiny, in prohibitive, reactive or active ways. Our results call for organisations to develop explicit policies or guidelines for social media use, in both their own interests and those of their employees.
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- Vilhelmson, Bertil, 1952, et al.
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Who and where are the flexible workers? Exploring the current diffusion of telework in Sweden
- 2016
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Ingår i: New technology, work and employment. - : Wiley. - 0268-1072 .- 1468-005X. ; 31:1, s. 77-96
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study investigates the increased adoption of telework in Sweden between 2005 and 2012. It uses microlevel data from national surveys in order to ask where telework is being adopted and by whom. Results indicate that telework has become routine for over 20 per cent of all gainfully employed. Expansion is explained by a working life in transition: besides enabling information and communication technologies, factors associate with managers’ trust and control; the character of jobs, work tasks and contracts in knowledge-based industries; and with individual and household work–life balance issues. Telework is connected to permanent employment in the advanced services sector, slowly diffusing into other sectors. It is increasingly performed in the home and is becoming more frequent. Individuals with families and children are overrepresented and among the fastest growing groups. Broadband access at home is an enabler. Larger urban regions strengthen their position in favour of teleworking.
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